Volume 36 (2018), Edition 2

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is highly controversial. Nuclear weapon states and their allies call it unrealistic, ineffective and detrimental to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Supporters - the large majority of United...

U.S.-Russian strategic arms control faces an uncertain future. The post-Cold War nadir in relations, questions about compliance with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, modernization programs and doctrinal questions pose challenges...

The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, a key arms control agreement between Russia and the United States, is about to collapse. Both countries keep on raising mutual allegations over violations of the treaty. The treaty bans...

More than two decades after the opening for signature of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), the treaty has near universal support and has established a global norm against nuclear test explosions. The nuclear testing taboo impedes the...

The Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty (FM(C)T) is on the negotiation agenda since 1996, yet without any progress. The reason is a justice conflict, namely a disagreement on the emphasis that should be placed on nuclear disarmament on the one side and...

The United States had officially refused to enter into direct dialogue with North Korea, until recently. Dialogue had previously been conditioned on Pyongyang’s commitment to complete, verified and irreversible denuclearization - the normative...

Over the last 10 years, students and professors at German universities have intensely discussed the implementation of the controversial Civil Clauses. In light of a well-documented expansion of military research at German state universities, the...